code.kiwi.com’s 2017 in numbers: growing our tech community

We're right in the middle of planning all the big events we want to deliver in 2018. However, that doesn’t prevent us from summing up last year because 2017 was a really good one!

We presented all over the world!

If we segment the events, we get the following numbers:

Our Top 3: Travelling Salesman, Machine Learning Weekend and #kiwicomtrainhack

If we should highlight three events, it would definitely be these three: Travelling Salesman Challenge, Machine Learning Weekend and #kiwicomtrainhack.

We’ll be counting our banana consumption at events in 2018 to see if we can match the incredible pace we devour them internally. See Andrej Makovicky’s article for more.

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